The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

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discussed in biography

His first book,
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1964), is a collection of essays satirizing American trends and celebrities of the 1960s.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) chronicles the psychedelic drug culture of the 1960s. His other nonfiction works include
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970),
The Painted Word (1975),...

New Journalism

...to his editor at
Esquire with an idea: he wanted to fly to California to write about a custom car show and the hot-rod culture. The result was Wolfe’s now-famous “
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby” (anthologized in his 1964 book by the same name), an energetic piece that became a model of what New Journalism could achieve. In 1973 Wolfe...